Prop 8 Trial Re-enactment, Day 2 Chapter 1

[MrAnde0068]

23:00 Judge Walker, "Good grief, is it Friday yet?"  hahaha

Can't wait for the SCOTUS to overthrow Prop 8

[historyboy08]

Prop 8 is constitutional! What the state of California wanted to do with the legalization of gay marriage prior to the passing of Proposition 8, was violating the separation of church and state. If California would have made gay marriage legal only at the federal level where a gay couple could be married at the Justice of the Peace, that would be lawful.

[AlexanderMccarthey87]

@historyboy08 and making a law which clearly respects an institution of religion against gay marriage is constitutional?

[historyboy08]

@AlexanderMccarthey87 the 1st amendment states the freedom of religion so yes, its constitutional

[AlexanderMccarthey87]

@historyboy08 what about "no law shall be made respecting an establishment of religion."

[nagla2009]

@PONYBOY430 good i hate faking gays and lesbians,they can all die.

[nagla2009]

@PONYBOY430 gays lesbian are freaks ,they dont need to married.

[NightHawkBomber001]

@nagla2009 Do you have any proof of this or are you just calling names to distract people from your own inadequacies?

[StAndAl0neCompl3x]

thanks for posting this!

[ace69er]

@PONYBOY430 Welcome to the land of the 'FREE'!

I'm sure a close look @ their much vaunted 'Constitution' would uphold that right!

[MrMz123456]

I felt the proponent of Prop 8 's reasoning and arguments are not as strong as the opponents of Prop's arguments.

But when it comes to a vote, people do not need reasoning and arguments, they can simply make a decison without any careful thinking, just based on their dislike or like, personal feeling and intuition, which might be based on errors, prejudice, and ignorance. I do not even understand why Americans trust direct democracy so much. 10 people is not necessarily smarter than 1 person.

[StAndAl0neCompl3x]

@MrMz123456. You're exactly right. 

[MrMz123456]

It is educational. do not understand why SCOTUS do not want to make it public.

[TheAmazingLiberalist]

is the trial over yet? if so has prop 8 been repealed?

[fireflygirl246]

They say they will have a ruling in late May early April. If the judge rules that prop 8 is unconstiutional it will be apealed to the ninth curit court and then to the suprem court before this will be over.

I'm not sure if the law will be changed before the suprem court ruleing and it might be 2011 before they will look at it. that is all only if they win this trial.

[rg0057]

Hmm. The viewers I'm watching this with agree that the quality is decreasing in each new video.

* witnesses typically do not read all of their answers from a page. Did Cott actually do this at trial?

* zoom in each of the frames a little bit, so we wouldn't see, for example, counsel's hand in witness's frame.

* for continuity, people don't generally change clothes instantaneously.

* the transcript is not being adhered to

More attention to detail, please.

[MarriageTrial]

Your message definitely caught our attention.

I should stress that our primary goal is to make the trial proceedings accessible as a video/audio for people who would never access the printed transcripts. We have shot nearly 3,000 pages of transcript with a cast of over 40 professional actors on $0 budget. All of the contributors, including our editors, are volunteering their time.

In typical film & television production, professional actors typically have a number of days to prepare for

[MarriageTrial]

In typical film & television production, professional actors typically have a number of days to prepare for 10-20 pages of script. In this case, our actors had less than a few hours to prepare for 300+ pages, with very few cuts. We simply did not have the luxury of a second take.

It is important to note, as well, that we gave specific direction to all of our actors *not* to paraphrase and always to choose the script over a more dramatic moment of eye contact, for instance. The simple fact

[MarriageTrial]

The simple fact is that real people spoke these actual words and our purpose is to re-create the transcript as a historic record.

You will find errors, to be sure. Some of these are entertaining for some viewers, who enjoy finding that sort of thing. We do not intend to have continuity errors, missing pages due to data corruption, that sort of thing. We are, however, very proud that we have been able to reach the quality of production possible on our schedule.

Thank you for your interest in

[MarriageTrial]

Thank you for your interest in the Prop 8 Trial Re-enactment. We appreciate your close following of our project!

-John Ireland

[tomwduda]

@MarriageTrial In my opinion, the re-enactment is brilliantly conceived, performed and captured on video. This particular trial is immensely important and I regard the herculean efforts of all participants to have done a great service to further the education of all people regardless of where in the world they live.

I will also say that it takes much more thought to ponder the implications that result from this trial than it does to find things to poke fun at.

[awatson945]

I would just like to say that I'm very impressed with the quality of the show and very happy to be able to see this re-enactment. Thank you very much.

[AlexanderMccarthey87]

@rg0057 about the continuity I think the reason they changed clothes was because it was the next day.

[MacMorrighan]

Just had to say it again: Prof. Cott is my personal hero!!!

[goingforwardforever]

Thanks for the video!